Also I'm still really confused about how the infected dead rise as flesh-eating zombies, which I think is what happens in the morgue?
Could it be the soul issue? I haven't read Affliction yet, so I'm just going on my freakish ABVH memory here -- it's been previously stated that it takes three days for a soul to clear a corpse before Anita can raise it as a zombie, it's coincidentally the same time it takes for a body to rise as a vampire. It's not a hard and fast rule, sometimes it can be more or less for souls to vacate according to Anita's necromancy senses. But it's a good general waiting period.
So could it be entirely possible that people that were infected/murdered by the flesh-eating zompires seem like just regular dead people long enough to get to the morgue, whatever magical hoodoo involved in souls leaving a body super fast because there's zompiring going on while a body is on the slab awaiting autopsy?
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Could it be the soul issue? I haven't read Affliction yet, so I'm just going on my freakish ABVH memory here -- it's been previously stated that it takes three days for a soul to clear a corpse before Anita can raise it as a zombie, it's coincidentally the same time it takes for a body to rise as a vampire. It's not a hard and fast rule, sometimes it can be more or less for souls to vacate according to Anita's necromancy senses. But it's a good general waiting period.
So could it be entirely possible that people that were infected/murdered by the flesh-eating zompires seem like just regular dead people long enough to get to the morgue, whatever magical hoodoo involved in souls leaving a body super fast because there's zompiring going on while a body is on the slab awaiting autopsy?